Aphroditopolitan

English

Adjective

Aphroditopolitan (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the ancient city of Aphroditopolis.
   • 1893, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Egypt of the Past, page 502:

     […] their glorious rising, or birth, was in the city of Kheb in the Aphroditopolitan Nome.

   • 1911, British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae, &c., in the British Museum:

     Limestone stele, in the form of a false door of Ka-utch-ankh, district chief of the Aphroditopolitan nome, captain of the king's guard and overseer of the cattle belonging to the guard of the court.

   • 2000 December 1, Aidan Dodson, Monarchs of the Nile, American University in Cairo Press, →ISBN:

     Inyotef II would appear to have been a brother of Inyotef I, and was responsible for the addition of the Thinite (Abydene) nome to his patrimony; [I made] its northern boundary as far as the Aphroditopolitan nome.

   • 2016, Alan Cameron, Wandering Poets and Other Essays on Late Greek Literature and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 11:

     We possess no fewer than seven from the prolific pen of Dioscorus—on the wedding of the magnificent count Callinicus, the most splendid Isacius, and various other distinguished Aphroditopolitan bridegrooms.